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He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors (or the "Legion of Doom"), with Road Warrior Animal. Outside of the Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world heavyweight championships on pay-per-view from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
After the heel turn, Animal, once again known simply as "The Road Warrior", would drop many aspects of the well-known Road Warrior gimmick, losing the face paint, and shoulder pads. Animal's look at this time was similar to his old Road Warrior gimmick in the early 1980s he had prior to teaming up with Hawk.
According to a 2014 study by Eastern Michigan University examining professional wrestlers who were active between 1985 and 2011, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are up to 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population. [1]
Joe Laurinaitis – known as Road Warrior Animal to his fans – passed away this week, the WWE confirmed in a statement. “At this time, we would like to confirm the passing of Joseph ...
When Hawk and Animal signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1990, Vince McMahon retired the Road Warriors moniker, since at the time there were other wrestlers with "warrior" in their names, such as The Ultimate Warrior and Kerry Von Erich "The Modern Day Warrior". [24]
Droz was involved in a confrontation involving L.O.D. member Hawk's alcoholism. In this confrontation, Hawk was seen by his partner Animal as unfit to wrestle and Droz was tapped to take Hawk's place in the tag team. The situation ended with accusations that he had been the "enabler" of Hawk's problems and had dosed the L.O.D. member to take ...
Road Warrior Hawk 1984 1986 [82] Patrick Helvey: Rick McCord 1986–1987 [2] [83] Curt Hennig † Curt Hennig 1984 1986 John Henning † John Paul Henning 1960–1962 1964 1967 [2] Leland Henning † Lee Henning 1950 1958–1967 1969 1972 [1] [2] [84] [85] Bernard Herman † Ricki Starr 1970 Robert Hermann † Hans Hermann 1953–1954 1959 ...
Former Golden State Warriors head coach Al Attles is shown during the first half of Game 2 of basketball’s NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, Calif., Sunday ...